Google Drive for Work rivals Microsoft Onedrive with total cloud storage

GOOGLE HAS ANNOUNCED Drive for Work, an craving cloud use that trumps Microsoft’s Onedrive with a offer of total storage.

Unveiled during Google I/O on Wednesday, Google Drive for Work is a business focused chronicle of a firm’s consumer Drive service, braggadocio combined administration controls, modernized record review stating and eDiscovery services so organisations can guard a communications between staff and information common in documents.

Thomas Davies, conduct of Google craving for Europe, told The INQUIRER, “We’re unequivocally vehement to be announcing this. We’ve seen a macro-economic cost of storage and discriminate come down though a attention as a whole has not unequivocally upheld those advantage down to finish users.

“Coupled with [that] is that people have told us they’re uploading ever-larger files, generally in media, publishing, so [we're] augmenting a limit record distance to 5TB to accommodate this need.”

Drive for Work is labelled during £6.60 per user per month. Those already regulating Google Drive for Business, that costs £3.30 per month, can pierce to Drive for Work for an additional £3.30 per user per month. Earlier this year, Google slashed a pricing for a Drive storage offering.

In further to Google Drive for Work, a organisation combined a handful of tweaks to a consumer Drive and Docs offerings. The organisation claimed that starting today, Drive will exaggerate a cleaner, speedier pattern on a web, iOS and Android, while it has integrated Quickoffice support into Docs, Sheets and Slides for softened harmony with some-more record types.

Google has softened Drive’s confidence too, as Google announced that as of currently all files uploaded to Google Drive will be encrypted, both in movement and on Google’s servers. µ